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Chishti v Spottiswoode & Ors
Defamation – preliminary issue – single meaning –- context – hyperlink – Chase levels
Corbyn v Millett
Preliminary issue – whether statement fact or opinion – bare comment – whether statement defamatory at common law
CWD v Nevitt & Ors
Privacy - defamation - anonymity - r16 order - reporting restrictions - s11 Contempt of Court Act 1981
Chandler v O’Connor
Libel – Twitter – Summary Relief – Defamation Act 1996 – Assessment of Damages
Carruthers v Associated Newspapers Limited, Carruthers v News Group Newspapers Limited
Defamation – Meaning – Honest Opinion – Summary Judgment
Chang Wa Shan v Esther Chan Pui Kwan
Defamation - malicious falsehood - slander - absolute privilege - civil proceedings - informant - damages - causation - remoteness - Hong Kong
Cruddas v Calvert (CA)
Defamation - libel - justification - malicious falsehood - malice - single meaning rule - damages
Cooke v MGN Ltd
Defamation - serious harm threshold - section 1(1) Defamation Act 2013 -evidence of serious harm - effect of apology
Crawford v Jenkins
Witness Immunity Rule; Harassment; Protection from Harassment Act 1997; Malicious Procurement of Arrest; Complaint to the Police; Whether complaint is immune from suit; Whether the immunity that covers defamation also covers torts of false imprisonment, malicious procurement of arrest and harassment.
Cruddas v Calvert & Others (No.4)
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - subterfuge - covert recording - Press Complaints Commission Code of Conduct - Public Interest - Justification - s.5 Defamation Act 1952 - Malice - Intention to Injure - Falsity - s.3 Defamation Act 1952 - Damages - Aggravated Damages
Cruddas v Calvert & Others (No.3)
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Trial Judge reversed by Court of Appeal in relation to pre-trial ruling - Recusal application - appearance of bias
Cruddas v Calvert & Others (No.2) (CA)
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Single-meaning rule - Determination of meaning for purposes of libel and malicious falsehood claims - justification - striking out
Cruddas v Calvert & Others (No.2)
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Single-meaning rule - Determination of meaning for purposes of libel and malicious falsehood claims - justification - striking out
Evidence - admissibility of evidence of the meaning understood by publishes in malicious falsehood actions.
Cruddas v Calvert
Libel - Malicious Falsehood - Amendments to Particulars of Claim - Malice - Aggravated Damages - Jury Trial
Cruddas v Adams
Defamation - Libel - Assessment of Damages - Twitter - Blog - s.12 Defamation Act 1952
Cammish v Hughes (CA)
Libel – meaning – fact or comment – honest comment and single meaning rule - Jameel abuse – costs as a condition of dismissal
Cairns v Modi; KC v MGN Ltd
Defamation - Appeal - Damages
Crow v Johnson
Defamation - meaning - capability - strike out - CPR 3.4
Cammish v Hughes
Libel - meaning - strike out - Jameel - Thornton
Church v MGN Limited
Defamation - libel - ruling on meaning - procedure - application for ruling without a hearing - direction for hearing - open justice - costs
Cairns v Modi No 2
Defamation - justification - guilt - reasonable grounds to suspect - aggravated damages
Cambridge v Makin
Defamation - libel - qualified privilege - malice
Cooper v Turrell
Libel - breach of confidence - misuse of private information - assessment of damages - injunctions
Crookes v Newton
Defamation - Publication - Liability for Hyperlinks - Internet - Supreme Court of Canada
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v Times Newspapers Ltd
Third party disclosure - breach of confidence - injunction - freedom of expression - fair trial
Caplin v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Meaning - Capability - Bane and antidote - CPR PD 53 4.1
Cook v Telegraph Media Group Limited (No 3)
Libel - honest comment - trial of preliminary issues - malice
Cook v Telegraph Media Group Ltd
Defamation - Part 24 - Justification - Honest comment - Reynolds privilege - Mode of trial
Clift v Slough Borough Council (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Local Authority duties - Public Authorities - Anti-social behaviour - Violent Persons Register - Article 8 - Necessity and proportionality of publication - Human Rights Act 1998
Cairns v Modi
Libel – Publication – Twitter – Preliminary issue – Substantial tort – Abuse of process
Clift v Slough Borough Council & Kelleher
Defamation - Libel - Qualified privilege - Malice - Local Authority duties - Anti-social behaviour - Violent Persons Register - Necessity and proportionality of publication - Human Rights Act 1998
Crossley & Crossley v Newsquest (Midlands South) Limited
Libel – Privacy - Summary judgment – Absolute privilege – Qualified privilege – Fair comment – Malice – Abuse of process - Newspaper article reporting neighbours’ dispute
Clarke t/a Elumina Iberica UK v Bain & Prolink Holdings Corp
Defamation - Libel - Jurisdiction - Foreign publication - Aggravated damages - Striking out - Case management - Proportionality
Club La Costa (UK) PLC v (1) Toby Gebhard (2) Inventory Solutions (UK) Limited
Defamation - offer of amends - s. 2 Defamation Act 1996 - qualified privilege
Crossley & Anor v Wallace & Anor
Defamation - libel - abuse of process - no reasonable basis for bringing a claim - review of Master's decision under CPR 3.4(2)(a) and (b) - ruling on meaning
Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Qualified privilege - Repetition rule - Single-meaning rule - Preliminary issue
Condé Nast Publications Ltd & Anor v UK
Human rights - Right to fair trial - Right to freedom of expression - Arts 6, 10, 18, ECHR - Civil procedure - Video conference link - Defamation - Claimant in libel proceedings giving evidence by video conference link
Chemodurov v Russia
Article 10 - Freedom of expression - Defamation - Political criticism - Value judgments - Whether 'necessary in a democratic society'
Charman v Orion Publishing Group & others (No.3) (CA)
Defamation - Libel - Qualified Privilege - Responsible journalism and authorship- Fair and accurate court reports - Reportage- Whether book protected by qualified privilege at common law
Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Qualified Privilege - Preliminary Issue
Charman v Orion Publishing Group & others (No.3)
Defamation - Libel - Reynolds privilege - Responsible journalism - Fair and accurate reports - Reportage - Whether book protected by qualified privilege
Cox v MGN Ltd (Costs)
Costs - Privacy - Data protection - Appeal - Proportionality - Conditional fee agreement - Success fee - Appropriate hourly fee - Entitlement to claim for increases in hourly rates
Campbell v Safra
Defamation - Responsibility for publication - Inducing breach of contract - Elements of cause of action - Summary judgment
Culnane v Morris & Another
Defamation - Libel - Human Rights - Political Speech -Preliminary Issue - Qualified Privilege - Election communications - s.10 Defamation Act 1952 - s.3 Human Rights Act 1998
Cray v Hancock & Another
Libel - Publication - Justification - Harassment - Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - Damages - Injunction - Negligence - Breach of Duty - Solicitor
Campbell v MGN Ltd (Costs) HL
Costs - Conditional Fee Agreements - Success Fee - Article 10 - Access to Justice - Article 6 - Proportionality - Cost-capping
Charman v Orion Publishing Group & others (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Meaning - Trial of a Preliminary Issue on Meaning - the natural and ordinary meaning of the words complained of
Charman v Orion Publishing Group & others
Defamation - Libel - Case Management Conference - Mode of Trial - Application for trial by Judge alone - s.69 Supreme Court Act 1981 - Application for meaning to be tried as a preliminary issue.
Campbell-James v Guardian Media Group plc
Defamation - Libel - Offer of Amends - Assessment of Compensation under <A
href="http://www.bailii.org/uk/legis/num_act/da199699/s3.html"
target=_blank>s.3(5) Defamation Act 1996
Creative Resins International Ltd v Glasslam Europe Ltd & Others
Defamation - Libel - Solicitors - Qualified Privilege - Protection of client's interests - Malice - Summary Judgment - CPR Part 24
Crossland v Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Slander - Malicious Falsehood - Malice - Qualified Privilege - Harassment - Summary Judgment - Part 24
Collins Stewart Limited & Another v The Financial Times Ltd (No 2)
Defamation - libel - corporate claimant - aggravated damages - further articles repeating (in part) sting of original libel
Cumpana and Mazare v Romania
Human rights - Freedom of expression - Defamation - Criminal defamation - Sentence - Articles 8, 10 ECHR
Collins Stewart Ltd & Another v The Financial Times Ltd
Libel - Damages - Special damages - Strike out - Company - Measure of damages by reference to share price - Mode of trial - General damages
Chauvy & Ors v France
Human rights - Freedom of Expression - Defamation - Libel - French criminal and civil law - 'good faith' defence - Articles 8, 10 ECHR
Coys Limited v Autocherish Limited & others
Defamation - Libel - interim injunction - website publication - s.12(3) Human Rights Act 1998 - Rule in Bonnard v Perryman - test to be applied
Charterhouse Clinical Research Unit Ltd v Richmond Pharmacology Ltd
Defamation - Trade libel - Human rights - Freedom of expression - s.12(4) Human Rights Act 1998 - Art.10 European Convention on Human Rights
Cleese v Clark & Associated Newspapers Limited
Defamation- Libel - Offer of Amends Procedure- Hearing to assess compensation- Section 3(5) Defamation Act 1996 - Damages.
Chase v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Human rights - Freedom of expression - Justification - Conduct rule - Repetition rule - Matters post-dating publication
Clarke v Davey
Defamation - Slander - Strike out - CPR Part 24 - Abuse of process - Summary judgment - s.8 Defamation Act 1996 - Absolute privilege - Qualified privilege - Malice
Campbell v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - quantum - justification - whether judge had misdirected jury - effect of attempt by claimant to pervert the course of justice - appeal allowed and damages reduced from £350,000 to £30,000
Cook & Carlton Communications Ltd v News Group Newspapers Ltd (No.2)
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Amendment - Principles governing late application to amend to add extensive particulars of justification - Overriding Objective.
Carpenter v Associated Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel- Fair Trial - Striking Out - CPR 3.4(2) - Abuse of Process - article 6 - right to a fair trial
Cook & Carlton Communications plc v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Justification - Justifying allegations sharing a common sting - Lucas-Box - Case management
Charleston & Smith v News Group Newspapers Ltd
Defamation - Libel - Headline - Photographs - Meaning
Charlton v EMAP plc and others
Defamation - settlement - statement in open court - defendant's objection to terms - court's approach - relevant considerations - whether commercial reasons for settlement offer to be referred to